15th Dec 2013

Internationally acclaimed performer, Rajeev Taranath is today one of the leading exponents of the Sarod.

Hailed a prodigy in Hindustani vocal music, he had been earlier trained by his father Pandit Taranath and other eminent musicians. He was a concert and radio artist before he was twenty. He has also received guidance from Pandit Ravi Shankar and Shrimati Annapurna Devi.
He is the recipient of the Indian Government's highest award in the arts, the Sangeet Natak Academi Award for 1999-2000.

Meera Prasad was initiated into the world of music very early in life and received her initial training from the famous ‘Beenkar’ Ustad Ahmad Raza Khan. For the past thirty years she has had the privilege of learning from the legendry Sitar maestro, the late Pt. Uma Shankar Misra of the Senia gharana. Her years of sadhana have paid rich dividends as today she is considered one of the top exponents of Sitar in the country.

Born into a family where music has been the mainstay for the last seven generations, Jayanthi started playing the Veena when she was barely 3.

Jayanthi is the disciple of her maternal aunt Smt. Padmavathy Ananthagopalan and Veena Maestro Dr.S.Balachander. Her maternal uncle, the Violin Legend Lalgudi Sri. Jayaraman is a great influence and inspiration for her.

Apart from solo performances, Jayanthi has performed several jugalbandhis and has also collaborated with musicians from other types of music in her own World music band called Indian Spice.

Arshad Ali is one of the few prodigies to live up to their initial promise. Born in the Kirana gharana, he has been fortunate to receive taleem from his maternal uncles, Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan and Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan. He is the grandson of the great sarangi maestro late Padmashree Ustad Shakoor Khan Saheb.

Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty is one the most popular vocalist of India and the most respectable artiste of Patiala Gharana. Besides singing Dhrupad, Khyal, Thumri, Dadra, Tappa and Carnatic music, he is equally at home in rendering many others forms of Indian vocal music including Geet, Ghazal, Bhajan, Keertan, Folk songs, film/non-film songs of old and modern times in different languages like Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Telegu, Persian and even English, which all together has made his artistry absolutely a solitary example in the music scenario of our country.

Internationally renowned Hindustani classical vocalist Dr. Prabha Atre is perhaps the only performer who has also excelled as a brilliant thinker, academician, author, composer and teacher of music. She is the senior most (completing 80 on 13th Sept 2012), front ranking vocalists in the country representing the Kirana gharaanaa, today. A Science and Law graduate, she also holds a Doctorate in music.